Thread:Evil Tim/@comment-6769189-20190501195941/@comment-6769189-20190507070852

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Evil Tim wrote:

I don't see any compelling statement that what you're saying is true, all you have is "X is set at time Y," which, as noted, can be applied to works that aren't canon. When a creator of a series places a work in the timeline of said series makes it canon. If it wasnt meant to be canon, it wouldnt have been set in the timeline. The statement doesnt have to be "it is canon" because putting a work into the official timeline means putting in the canon.

A work cannot be non-canon and part of the official timeline at the same time. That notion contradict itself.

You are equating fanfiction writers to creators of the series, which is dishonest and misrepresentative of the situation.

Evil Tim wrote:

What I'm saying is that talking about a greater canon is a waste of time since nobody has defined it clearly, save that Donte is not supposed to be the real Dante which most people worked out as soon as DmC was released. You are wrong about this as well. No one ever said DmC is non-canon, it was stated that it is a story that doesnt take place chronologically before or after the other games.

If DmC's canonicity is determined by whether or not it is in DMC's chronology, then the same is true for the anime.

Evil Tim wrote:

Also you could equally argue that DMC 4 shows that Dante forgot how to do Stinger during his mission to Fortuna rather than just between games as usual. But it's pretty obvious he's not supposed to do that even though it's shown in the game. Same goes for the holes in his pockets that cause him to lose all those Orbs he keeps picking up. Gameplay/story segragation. Not all gameplay mechanics are meant to be representative of the narrative.